The people who visit my blog are in two categories, somewhat exerienced digital scrapbookers or crafters and those who have absolutely no idea how to work with graphics but would love to!!! For those of you in the later category, there’s a very inexpensive and very easy to learn program available at the Daisie Company. It costs only $24.95 and can be found at this link: www.daisiecompany.com/cart/index.php
This program will also help you organize all of your photos if you have a digital camera. You can view, sort and even import your photos into a scrapbooking layouts that you can create within the program.
If you want to create your own gifts to give for special occasions such as recipe cards, bag toppers for cookie mixes or other food-oriented gifts, this little program will do it all! You’ll be amazed at how professional your crafts can look with the beautiful art that is available at THE DAISIE COMPANY. Also, if you’re just not very artistic… THE DAISIE COMPANY has precreated printables that all you have to do is print and assemble!!! There are soup can labels, Christmas kits for "Snowman Soup," all sorts of party kits and notecards, recipe cards… just an amazing arrayof goodies that you can create for yourself or to give as gifts.
There is a forum at the Daisie Company message board (http://www.daisiecompany.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=38with) a place to ask any questions that you might have and the (mostly) ladies there are very helpful. If you have always wanted to be able to use your computer and printer in artistic and crafty ways but haven’t known how to do so, this is a great way to start.
By the way, the graphics you see in the image are a free kit that is included in the purchase cost. I hope that if you’ve been thinking about taking the plunge to learn digital scrapping or digital crafting that this will help!
THE PROVERB OF THE DAY: Prov 20:4-5 A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing. The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
NIV
The colors of this kit are deep and rich and there will be an additional paper pack that will release on Friday that coordinates with it. 
If you don’t have an oversized printer, try using a sheet of paper, butcher paper or a coordinating wrapping paper with a stripe or good neutral pattern. You can also print two sheets of normal sized paper and double stick tape or glue them together. Cut out your elements and glue them to the mat, add lettering and laminate if you can. This is a great project for kids too. You can cut out the paper for them to decorate and simply print out the elements, letting them cut them out and place as they wish.
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I’ve shown the tiniest portion of this set, it’s a smaller set, but it has 3 different types of bunting, star borders, stripes borders, striped papers, frames, a text piece suitable for framing and a bookmark. Bright, colorful and patriotic (for those of you in the United States) this set can be used to create invitations to a BBQ, make annoucements for your community’s parade, to create military salute pages or greeting cards for projects such as our recent Cards for the injured troops at Daisie Company. 
There are several text art frames that can be used for journaling, making a greeting card out of, a candy wrapper or? The possibilities are endless!
So, once I’d wrung every last little bit of writing energy out of myself, I turned to finishing up a new kit that I’ll be debutting soon. It is "Summer Fun 1" and has a more poolside orientation than my Tropical Breeze collections though they will work wonderfully together. 
There is still a second paper pack to come and I am having so much fun with this art that I just keep creating new goodies so stay tuned for Baby Love 3 one of these days!
). This bookmark comes with a Mother message already on it or blank for you to personalize any way you would like. If you don’t have a Mother to honor this Mother’s Day, perhaps you can make it as a little gift for an older woman in your neighborhood or at church to let her know she’s being thought of? 
(UPDATE: the link has expired. Please check back for other specials about once or twice a month). Perhaps Mother’s day is a little difficult for you to celebrate. Either your mother has passed on, of perhaps wasn’t the Mother you always dreamed of having. You read the card racks and just can’t pick one without feeling uncomfortable. For those who struggle with issues in this area, it can be painful to hear stories about incredible mothers or hear about how "wonderful all Mothers are," when your experience has been so different. 
